Well I definitely think we'll have both characters in this movie, as far as we've heard from Wright and Cornish.

Which character ends up as Ant-Man in the end, though? Who knows. Maybe both--it's not like the MCU isn't big enough for two Ant-Men. =D

i don't even see it as an issue. i'll be happy if Scott's simply in the movie; he's the ant-man that i like. but i would expect Pym to show up as Giant-Man in any Avengers movie. he doesn't bring much to the table as a shrinker. but a giant addition to SHIELD's team is newsworthy.

“Frankly, now we have to re-write it to put it a little bit more into the [Marvel Cinematic Universe] because it was written before it existed. We’ve talked about various names [to play the lead] over the past eight years but as you can imagine they keep changing as time goes by. But towards the end of this year, we’ll buckle down and start casting and start refining the script, which is great and which is very Edgar. He has done a great job being incredibly true to the comics but is putting his own spin on it, so we’ll be drawing on multiple mythologies for this one."

I guess the mutliple mythologies means they might still be going for Pym and Lang given Edgar's open love for Lang, desire to use Pym and the fact when they were doing the test footage they brought up every old Ant-Man comic they could get their hands on in London's comic shops.

I hope they ditch the 1960s setting. I wouldn't mind seeing a reorganised AIM more in line with the comics pop up as well post Iron Man 3 .

Robert Kirkman’s The Irredeemable Ant-Man, a character that’s rumored to be a part of the film by many…even if Kirkman himself doesn’t believe it.

“I know Edgar Wright a little bit–we talk from time to time–and I know because of his talent that that movie will be fantastic,” The Walking Dead creator told us at New York Comic Con. “So I don’t think that’s what they’re doing, I don’t know, but if it has any Eric O’Grady elements in it, that will be very cool and I would be all for it.”

I could live with the movie being focused on Lang if we get an intro to Pym in the other Marvel movies coming up in Phase 2.
If that's the case and the Ant-Man movie is basically a live-action remake of the "To Steal and Ant-Man" storyline, but Pym still remains the important character he's supposed to be in the MCU, then I'll be happy.

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On Why He's So Determined To Bring Edgar Wright's Ant-Man To The Big Screen:

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"Well, it’s for a couple of reasons. The primary reason is because I met a very talented filmmaker who was about my age almost ten years ago, we got along very well. He had a movie called “Shaun of the Dead” which hadn’t come out yet and he said he really wanted to meet to talk about “Ant-Man”… and this was even before we were on the studio. This was just at the dawn of us even discussing becoming our own studio. But we met with him, he had a cool idea and when we became our own studio, we hired him and Joe Cornish, who as you know, went on to do “Attack the Block” and become a very talented filmmaker in his own right. At the time he hadn’t done much at all but we really believed in him and we believed in Edgar and they delivered a draft that was sort of unlike anything we’d done before that was sort of wholly Edgar and wholly Marvel and a very fun spin on the Ant-Man mythology. And if you’ve seen the in-progress test we showed at Comic-Con last year and there’s been some clips of it we’ve released. People go like, “Ant-Man, is that a joke? What happens? He talks to ants?” And Edgar and his team put together this test of basically just Ant-Man going down the hallway and it is so kick-ass and so bad-ass, people instantly go, “Oh, I get it! Now we see what it can be.” And that of course is only 1% of what the movie is, but it’s certainly enough to get people to realize, 'Oh, that’s why you’ve been thinking about this for so long.'"

Given how very "Shane Black" IM3 is I'm looking forward to Wright's take on Ant Man even more now.

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